The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-03-19
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nitely postponed.
Assembly.
MADISON, March 1O.-Senate bills were
concurred in: Makingit lawful for the board
OF public works OF Milwaukee to issue a
permit to the county of Milwaukee, the ma
| tional home for disabled soldiers, or any
| other party to obtain water from the city
water-works, for use outside OF the city;
authorizing the state board OF charities
| and reform to transfer from the state hos.
| pital to any county asylum any or all OF
the chronic insane from the state at
large" therein, the counties thus car
| ing for the insane to receive SO per
week per patient, and also the
| amount OF the clothing bill-the
money to come from the state treasury; to
amend the charter OF the city OF Depere;
appropriating the sum OF $4,000 with
which to erect a central building and two
additional cottages at the state school for
| dependent children at Sparta; to authorize
Benjamin Hennemann and others to build
dams, booms and other improvements on
the Montreal river; prohibiting any mem
Der OF the common council OF the city OF
Milwaukee from holding any other city
office; relating to the order OF the Catholic
! Knights OF Wisconsin. The senate me-
mortal to Congress for the better protection
against pleuro.pneumonia was concurred
| in.
The following bills were passed: to
| amend the charter of the city of Sheboy-
| gan; to provide for register in probate
| for st. Croix county; to authorize Jacob
| Bye to construct and maintain q dam
| across the North Fork, in Clark county;
| requiring railway companies to keep an ak
| and hand-saw on the outside as well as
| inside OF all cars used for the transporta-
! tion OF passengers, the penalty for failure
| being fine OF $25 per car per day; to au-
| thOrize VIM. j. Vincent, James Thompson
| and j. y. Jones to build and maintain a
dam on Clam river. in Burnett county; to
| amend section 3212, OF chapter 100, OF the
revised statutes ntitled, "oi alienation by
| deed and proof and recording OF instru.
| ments affecting titles OF land" to legalixe
certain proceedings Of the officers and coun-
Gil of the city OF Milwaukee, instituted
since April II, 1885, FOR the
| opening and vacation of public alleys,
| squares and other public places; to amend
| the act to incorporate the village OF Shcei.
| singerville; to authorize Frederick Peter
| son to construct dam across Trade river,
| in Burnett county; to authorize a vote by
the voters OF the city OF Ripon on he ques-
tions OF water-works; providing the man.
ner OF the collection of personal property
| taxes, when their payment is refused or ne
| elected; relating TO justices OF the peace
| elected in the Second and Fourth wards of
| the city OF Manitowoc; to prohibit the es
| adjustment OF Joints, booths or other
| places for smoking or other use OF opium;
| permitting town insurance companies to
| insure cheese factories; to authorize rail-
way companies to appoint police officers to
act on their premises; providing for the
| government OF county insane asylums; re-
| quiripg bank stock to be taxed in the coun-
| ty and assessment district " here it is 10.
Gated.
ornh 4 1Io
To amend an act to establish municipal
| court for Rock county; permitting com
munities to regulate the licensing OF auc-
| tioneers, and generally reenacting chapter
| 6S OF the Revised Statutes to auctioneers;
| permitting roads in towns to be sprinkled
| on the application OF a majority OF the
owners OF the lineal feet OF land fronting
or abutting on such roads, to punish
false pretenses in obtaining GER
certificates OF registration OF cattle and
other animals, and to punish giving false
| pedigrees; permitting the formation of in
| ter county medical societies, which may
sustain the same relation to the state
| medical societies as county societies
| now do; providing that il any parent
shall willfully abandon his or her children
| leaving them in destitute condition, on
conviction thereof he or she shall be i'm.
| prsened for fifteen days on bread and
water only, or by confinement in the state
prison not to exceed one year; appropriat-
| ing $15 to each clergyman who has offici-
| ated at the opening OF any session OF the
| present legislature; to enable the several
counties and the state to prosecute Gle inns
| for swamp and overhowed lands or in.
demnity therefor) due under the act OF Con.
gress, entitled IAN act to enable the state
| OF Arkansas and the other states to re.
| claim swamp lands within their limits" to
| provide for the partition OF personal
| property owned by tenants in common;
leaving the matter OF furnishing free text
| books optional with school districts; re-
quiring town boards, village boards and
common councils to organize as boards OF
health, or to appoint suitable number OF
competent persons who shall organize as
boards OF health; providing that the as
sistant attorney general shall devote SO
much OF his time to the duties OF his Office
as the attorney general may require; to
appropriate to Geo. E. Tate the sum OF
$4OO as expenses incurred by him in his
contest with Isaac McCann for the seat as
member OF the assembly for Richland